> Yet we constantly see all this devaluation of the practice of software engineering ("code was always the easy part" - bull-fucking-shit) Whenever I've used t

> Yet we constantly see all this devaluation of the practice of software engineering ("code was always the easy part" - bull-fucking-shit) Whenever I've used this phrase or seen other people use this phrase it's never been in the context of software engineering. It's always been in the context of literally just spitting out code that a compiler will accept. Believe it or not, a lot of students in CS cohorts have significant struggles fighting the compiler because they just don't understand the language they're programming in and are slow to become proficient (if they ever do). Thus, a lot of people have this idea that writing code, and I mean literally just spitting out something that compiles and runs is hard. Doing that is indeed quite easy today. That's what we mean by "coding was always the easy part". Writing code that actually scales into something bigger and is constructed in a way that meets requirements and is flexible? That's a whole different ball game. That's software engineering.